Hi all, I'm diagnosing a poor performing workflow and wanted to ask if there is any performance difference between deleting browse tools from the workflow vs disabling them in the Runtime menu?
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You should not see any difference when running the workflow between the two options.
You can also add them to Container tools and disable the containers as you so desire.
Let me know if that helps,
J
In addition to what @jacob_kahn said could you:
1. enable performance profiling and look at the messages to see which tool(s) are burning horsepower?
2. if there are opportunities to add the Auto Field Tool without messing your output format, you place the tool strategically to compress the size of data flowing in the stream = faster performance.
I hope it helps.
My pleasure @jacob_kahn
There's always something, right?
I've also found that there's a performance downside to using the Data Cleanse Tool (20% to 30% of performance on larger streams). If all one is doing is removing trailing or leading spaces (or any other process that can be accomplished with a formula), it's best to just leverage the Multi Field Tool with a TRIM([_currentfield_]). Much more performant.
Excessive Joins while flowing-through right_columns that are not needed is another thing.
Ultimately, my thoughts are that if you can remove unnecessary Columns + aggregate appropriately to reduce Rows, plus Auto Field, then your onto a great start!
Cheers!
Agreed with the Data Cleanse tool! I had a manager that once mentioned the quicker route via the Trim function in the Formula tool.
My workflows are slow regardless - I think in batch and iterative macros so that does it...
Lol,
J
Thanks all! The workflow has other problems just wanted to be sure disabling the browses wasn't an additional issue!